is TLC/Discovery making fun of the Duggars ?

[JI7]

maybe it's just the way they are and no matter how they do the editing it wont change much.

but when they are going into that creation museum they just come off as idiots. the young brother talking about the oldest brother's engagement and saying that boys look for someone like their mother, and girls look for someone like their father.

i know about the no sex until marriage thing, but they can't even kiss, not even on the cheek until they are married ? not even during the proposal and engagement no kiss on the cheek ?

now the idiot father is talking about how his wife had baggage from having boyfriends before him. WTF ?

[CoffeeCat]

1. LOL...and that guy *doesn't* have baggage?

Here's a guy who expects that his future wife, arrive at his doorstep, a blank slate.

Anything less is "baggage."

Who in the hell would want a baggage-free life? No heartbreak. No lessons learned. No growing up.
No falling desperately in love so bad that it hurts?

Any man who demands that his "woman" keep her heart in a cement box until he arrives--has more baggage
than me.

...and that's saying a lot, because I've enjoyed many rounds on the ol' baggage carousel of life!

...my tray table has been in the locked and upright position more than I care to count!

[dflprincess]

3. And I'll bet even after 18 kids,

Jim Bob gives her the third degreee about just what she did with those boyfriends at least once a week. Maybe he'll go completely off the deep end and wind up on "Maury" demanding DNA tests on all 18 kids. :rofl:

[AlCzervik]

2. i doubt tlc cares, The Duggar clan is probably a cheap show to make and it probably

generates a lot of ad revenue, the sister wives sell that Tide™.

[BrklynLiberal]

9. Bingo. Anyway they can make $$ they will. Look at all those "reality"

shows. Everyone on them looks like an idiot..but they are cheap to make and lots of people watch them, so sponsors pay a pretty penny to have their ads on there. I would guess TLC has the same philosophy. The person that came up with the idea of showcasing the Duggars is probably getting a nice big bonus.

[ikojo]

4. Some fundie Christians believe that if a girl (an it's always the

girls they worry about the most) has many dates, her heart will not be whole enough for the man she eventually marries. She will have given pieces of her heart to many boys. They believe this even if the girl does not sleep with the boy.

There was a good Feb, 2000 New York Times Magazine article on such a family in Pennsylvania.

http://tinyurl.com/96g9ox

A Mighty Fortress

By MARGARET TALBOT
Published: February 27, 2000

snip

Inside, there is no such ambivalence. Although the Scheibners are well off and their house is comfortably appointed -- Steve is a pilot with American Airlines and a commander in the Naval Reserves -- what might strike many visitors first is what's missing. In the Scheibner household, where the children are 12, 11, 9, 7, 6, 4 and 20 months, there is no Pokemon or ''Star Wars'' paraphernalia. There are no Britney Spears or Ricky Martin tapes. There are no posters of Leonardo DiCaprio or Michael Jordan taped to the walls, no pots of lip gloss or bottles of metallic nail polish scattered around. No Mortal Kombat, no ''Goosebumps.'' No broadcast TV -- though the family does watch carefully selected videos, which often means movies from the 1940's and 50's. (The older kids are big Cary Grant fans.) There is no giggling about the cute guys and girls at school, because the Scheibners are home-schooled and besides, their parents don't believe in dating. There is little sign of eye-rolling preteen rebellion, because Steve and his wife, Megan, don't believe in that either, and have set up their lives in such a way that it is unlikely to manifest itself. Katie, the oldest, reads Louisa May Alcott and reissued girls' classics like the Elsie Dinsmore books, and is partial to white patent-leather Mary Janes worn with ankle-length floral dresses. Peter, who comes next, likes Tolkien and the muscularly Christian boys' adventure stories written by the 19th-century author G. A. Henty, and favors chinos and logo-free button-down shirts. Peter wants to be a missionary in Russia, which he describes as a ''forsaken'' country; Katie wants to be a home-schooling mom. They are each other's best friends. And if they quarrel, it's not in a way that involves the dissing of one another in viciously up-to-the-minute slang.

There is no sports gear lying around the Scheibner household, because Megan feels that team sports breed competitive ''behavior that we would not deem Christlike''; more important, they interfere with the weekly rhythm of schooling, service and worship. Holidays don't disrupt much, either. The Scheibners don't celebrate Halloween -- Satanic overtones -- though one year the three oldest children dressed up as a couple of shepherds and a sheep and went door to door handing out evangelical tracts. At Christmas, they decorate the house and take baskets of food to their neighbors and to the poor, but they don't indulge in a buy-fest.


snip

...The Scheibners believe that dating, because it usually involves breaking up, is, as Steve puts it, ''practice for divorce.''

snip

It goes without saying that they do not approve of premarital sex, but what is a little more surprising is that they do not approve of premarital emotional intimacy either. If a couple are courting, they are supposed to be seriously considering each other as husband and wife, and they are supposed to do so with some overt participation by parents or other elders. Ideally, they should not be alone together, or if they are it ought to be in a public place -- a Friendly's, say -- where liquor is not served and where they are unlikely to give in to temptation. As Steve later explained to me: ''If a girl dates 100 guys before she gets married, she's given her heart away 100 times but every time she gets it back, it's a little more scarred. So, when I took Katie out, I had bought this cheap little wedding ring in my size, and I gave it to her and I said: 'This is yours and what it represents is your heart. Go ahead and try it on.' Well, of course it was about as big as three of her fingers. So I said, 'See, it doesn't fit you, but it does fit Daddy, so if you don't mind, I want you to give Daddy your heart and let him hold on to it until the appropriate time when I will give it back to you and you in turn will give it to the man you marry.' ''

[blueraven95]

8. thank you...the article was interesting

the link didn't work for me, but I found an updated one http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE4D61530F934A15751C0A9669C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1">here

[carlyhippy]

5. I saw that one...their cousin Amy is pretty cool

they love her anyway, even tho she is different :)

I couldn't believe he was talking about his wife's baggage, good grief. I saw their latest one, where the new kid was born, he didn't seem too happy with having to shop at a baby store for the upcoming baby, comparing prices etc. Let this woman have what she wants, she has went thru plenty with being pregnant all those years, she deserves it.

[Sal Minella]

6. My guess is, "what she wants" is a tubal ligation.

[xchrom]

7. no -- the duggars create and sell the idea to discovery. -- they get PR --

and increased sales for whatever they're into besides rental property.

[BrklynLiberal]

10. AND they have managed to have their house recognized as a church, so it is tax exempt...

Does word "GRIFTERS" ring a bell???

[Deja Q]

13. "Grifters"? No. "Degenerate pigs" has the bell ringing so loud, it's gone broke.

[uberllama42]

11. I liked how Jim Bob said that man was created a day after the animals

and one of the kids said "no, they were made on the same day." And Jim Bob says, "Oh, you got me on that one." None of them realized that the bible contradicts itself between Genesis 1 and Genesis 2. They really showed off how brainwashed the fundies are.

I don't get the sense that the show is making fun of them. All it does is show them for who they are. If intelligent people find them ridiculous, that's not TLC's fault.

[Vinca]

12. I don't watch the show, but if it depicts them visiting the creation museum,

they are idiots.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

14. Too sleepy. I read that as THC and boy was I surprised.

[proud2BlibKansan]

15. I don't care; those people are freaks and bring it all on themselves

Besides I didn't get enough of this lunatic and the Duggars fill a need for me: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXnYJH5_0CQ

[elehhhhna]

16. She literally has a TON of children & he says she had "baggage" from her old BF's? LMAO